Black holes can release enormous energy through hot disks, surrounding plasma and powerful jets, enough to support a ...

Most alien-signal searches listen to a narrow part of the radio spectrum, but astronomers are now testing higher frequencies that have barely been explored. A first search using archived ALMA ...

Looking ahead: Existing radio surveys may contain signals that were never recognized as potential technosignatures. New ...

These cosmic giants might one day propel our spacecraft, process unimaginable amounts of data, and even reveal advanced ...

Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the 1960s when astronomers began to pick up mysterious, unknown radio sources in the cosmos. Soviet ...

“There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember.” That line, attributed to Richard Feynman, lands because it gets at a simple, stubborn feeling. The sky looks ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

In 1961, Dr Frank Drake proposed a probabilistic, though highly speculative, equation to determine the number of intelligent ...

A new study published as a preprint on arXiv suggests that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations might not need to surround ...

For decades, SETI researchers have focused on finding narrow-band radio signals that might stand out from the natural universe. But what if an advanced civilization that wanted to communicate would ...

For decades, scientists searching for extraterrestrial intelligence have focused their telescopes on a small slice of the ...